John Elliott offends on Can of Worms

Former Carlton Football Club President John Elliott caused offence on Channel Ten's Can of Worms last night by referring to indigenous Australians as 'abos'.

Elliott was part of a panel answering the question ‘Should we acknowledge traditional owners at official events?’ on the show which is produced by Andrew Denton's production company Zapruder’s Other Films.

Elliott said that acknowledging indigenous owners was “sheer bloody nonsense”.

“I was in St Paul’s Cathedral the other day and there’s the Dean of the Church and all he did for the first five minutes was talk about the abos,” Elliott said.